The most daunting sight in college sports coming up won’t be Alabama coach Nick Saban landing in a helicopter at another South Florida high school to recruit away another local talent.
In so many ways, the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling Monday that the NCAA couldn’t prevent modest payouts to athletes for educational pursuits was the first brick pulled out of an inequitable, intransigent, ineffective and generally crummy college sports system.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh sounded like a sports columnist from any of the last 50 years in writing his opinion:
“The NCAA couches its arguments for not paying student athletes in innocuous labels.